These are the Ministerial arrangements consequent on Sir Henry Hardinge's
appointment to be Governor-General of ladia. Lord Gran- ville Somerset has a seat in the Cabinet, retaining his preseut appoint- ment of Chancellor of !he Dutchy of Lancaster; Sir Thomas Fremantle succeeds Sir Henry Hardinge as Secretary at War, without a seat in the Cabinet ; Mr. John Young, M.P. for the county of Cavan and one of the Lords of the Treasury, succeeds Sir Thomas Fremantle as Secre- tary to the Treasury ; and Lord Arthur Lennox succeeds Mr. Young: The Garter vacant by the death of the Earl of Lonsdale is confereed. on Lord Talbot.
The report that the Queen meant to abolish the Mastership of the
Royal Buekhounds, held by the Earl of Rosalyn, is contradicted. -
A meeting of noblemen and gentlemen connected with Ireland, of all parties, held at the Duke of Leinster's residence on Saturday, resolved- " That it is of the hiehest importance (het the Ordnance Memoir of Ire- land should be carried on, in accordance with the recommendations cdn- tained in the report of the Commissioners appointed last year to inquire into the subject." A deputation, headed by the Duke, was appoiated to wait on Sir Robert Peel.
A letter dated Brussels, 12th My, says—" The Datchess of Kent will stay for about a nionth in the environs of Berne with her sister, the Grand Dutchess Anne (wife of the lute Grand Duke Constantine, from whom she was separated); whom her Royal Highness had not seen since 1818, when she came to England to marry the Duke of Kent." The Prince of Wales has recently become a Governor of Christ's Hospital ; and his first presentation has been conferred on a son of My. Robert Hunt, Secretary to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Institution; whose Researches on Light had obtained the favourable notice and re- commendation of Sir John Herschel!.
The Standard contradicts a report that Chief Justice Tindal has ex- pressed a wish to retire at the end of term : " His Lordship at present does not entertain any intention of retiring from public life. Lieutenant Cuddy has published a rejoinder to Mr. Macro's last let- ter, accompanied by a letter from Major Daubeney, denying some statta- - mania, and especially the one that Colonel Fawcett meant to shoot his antagonist: the fact was the very reverse.
The papers publish the confession of Mrs. Dorey respecting her share in the will-forgeries; the whole of which, excepting the part relating to the Stewart case, was suppressed on the trials, at the instance of coun- sel of the other prisoners. It is well and plainly written, and its gene- ral character is such as to seem internal evidence of sincerity. It re- presents Fletcher as the prime mover in the frauds, using the other per- sons for his tools • and the writer herself as copying and signing docu- ments, by Fletchr's persuasion without any very distinct understand- ing on her part of the precise objects, excepting that Fletcher had some way, not very correct but very clever, of obtaining large sums of money. Fletcher mentioned the names of two other persons, (which are left blank in the confession,) "who, he said, transacted business at the Bank in the same way he did"; and a young lady, a friend of Mrs. Dorey, is spoken of (the name also being suppressed) as having signed the name of "Mary Hunt." Fletcher, it seems, after the death of his wife, was a suitor for the hand of Mrs. Dorey, then unmarried ; and her repulse latterly led to some coolness between them. A few days before her arrest, a person called on her ; warned her in Fletcher's name that an officer was coming to examine her ; said that property belonging to Fletcher, to the amount of nine or ten thousand pounds, had been made over ; and declared that Fletcher should not be sent out of the country, for he should be furnished with prussic acid. Mrs. Dorey says that her mother's name was Susannah Coombs.
The sentence of Mary Furley has been commuted to transportation • for seven years ; a statement accidentally omitted in our last week's publication.
A most revolting murder was discovered at Nottingham, on Thursday one Saville, a framework-knitter, having killed his wife and three children, that he might be free to marry a young woman whom he had courted, but who repulsed him as being already married.
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